Stefan Rahmstorf (born 22 February 1960) is a German

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and

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. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University. He studied physical oceanography at

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and received his

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oceanography Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dyna ...

from

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(1990). His work focuses on the role of

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s in

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.Stefan Rahmstorf , Curriculum Vitae
/ref> He was one of the lead authors of the

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Public role

Rahmstorf is a co-founder of the blog Real Climate, which has been described by

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as one of the top-5 science blogs in 2006, and included among the 15 best environmental websites by

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in 2008. He also co-founded the German blog ''KlimaLounge''. ''KlimaLounge'' won the 3rd prize of the science blog award of 2013. He is a frequent contributor of articles on climate and climate change/

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in the popular press, some of which are internationally syndicated via

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. He writes a regular column in the German environmental magazine ''Zeo2'', and has published the children's science book ''Wolken, Wind und Wetter'' (''Clouds, Wind, and Weather'') on weather and climate. The book was selected as ''Environmental Book of the Month'' for January 2012 by the ''Deutsche Umweltstiftung''. In addition, it was later voted ''Environmental Book of the Year 2012''. Rahmstorf has commented on climate change and climate policy on TV and radio. He was portrayed as one of the world's 10 leading climate scientists by the

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in 2009. The ARD presented a portrait of Rahmstorf in their prime news magazine Tagesthemen when he received the ''Deutscher Umweltmedienpreis'' (''German Environmental Media Award'') in 2007.

Work

The University of Flensburg found that among all climate scientists from Germany, Rahmstorf published the largest number of studies which ranked amongst the most-cited in the scientific literature during the years 1994–2013. Rahmstorf was a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) from 2004 till 2013.

Awards and honors

*''Climate Communication Prize'' of the American Geophysical Union (2017). * Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2010) *Along with other authors of the IPCC AR4 report, he was honored by the award of the

2007 Nobel Peace Prize The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (founded in 1988) and Al Gore (b. 1948) "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made clima ...

to the IPCC, shared with

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. *Honorary Fellow of the

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(2007) *German Environmental Media Award (''Deutscher Umweltmedienpreis''), for his work on scientific accurate reporting anthropogenic climate change and impacts (2007) *''Centennial Fellowship Award'' from the

James S. McDonnell Foundation The James S. McDonnell Foundation was founded in 1950 by aerospace pioneer James S. McDonnell. It was established to "improve the quality of life," and does so by contributing to the generation of new knowledge through its support of research and ...

, research grant of $1 million (1999)

Selected publications

An overview of Rahmstorf's publications can be found at hi
Google Scholar
profile. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

References

External links

Stefan Rahmstorf's blog at ''KlimaLounge''

Personal website

Climate-science blog with contributions from Stefan Rahmstorf

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